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Someone has left the door unlocked at 3BA in Ballarat. First Popstar (David McClung) from the Power FM Hot 20 departs a few months ago to the DMG Northern Hub, then Viv Hatzi (Power FM Late Nights) disappears up there too. Now Bec Kington (Power FM Music Director) and Ray Kington (3BA Afternoons) have also resigned to move to a yet unknown location.

SEN 1116 may be the official Melbourne station of the upcoming Athens Olympic games but 3AW will be broadcasting their breakfast live from Athens during the games. It is said the breakfast boys Ross Stevenson and John Burns will be pulling out all the stops to attempt to steal SEN's thunder of the coverage.

3AW's Rex Hunt has vowed not to pay a fine for the theft of Qantas property from Adelaide's Qantas Club last Saturday. Rex smuggled a number of forks onto the Melbourne bound flight to prove a point after experiencing difficulty when he was checking in through airport security.

It seems as if RG Capital have slowly started to network the drive shift with the Benchwarmers from the Gold Coast, the latest stations to lose drive announcers being Sea FM Mackay and Sun FM Shepparton.

3MP this week welcomes Paul James (new pd ) and Pete Tarnawski to the on air team. Steve Curtis has now moved to weekend afternoons and Colin Boucher has replaced Michele Adler and John Patrick on the Saturday gardening program. Paul and Pete made their debut yesterday

18/05/04 - Austereo Adelaide has let a little more of the Eastern States programming penetrate the South Australian market. First it was Kyle and Jackie O who have recently joined SA FM, now as of next Monday Mick Molloy will deliver his 'Tough Love' program to 5MMM. We are lead to believe 'Tough Love will be packaged into an hour format between 1.00pm and 2.00pm for 5MMM.Speaking of Kyle and Jackie O, they will be broadcasting live from Adelaide's Rundle Mall this Friday , networking the show back across to the Eastern states.

Test transmissions are a strange thing and in the case of Merrick and Rosso and their Adelaide experiment, lets leave it at that. The divides are to large for the comedy duo to ever be networked into Adelaide once the new NOVA is launched later this year. This is despite their current test transmission having an impact on 'other FM ' ratings category.

We have all heard people overseas attempting an Aussie accent on TV and Radio and most of the time it either sounds rather 'cockney' or at worst a very poor South African. A Canadian station is doing its bit to stamp out bad Aussie accents and last week emailed EDGE FM Wangaratta asking for the genuine article. PD Glenn Looker obliged and sent them back a 'live' Aussie read, eliminating the cringe factor of another shocker attempt at our accent.

Top marks to GOLD 1043 today for playing 'The Concert for George'. The tribute concert recorded one year after George Harrison's death was a highlight and packaged across the day. We believe it was also played across 5DN, WS FM and 4KQ.

South Australia's TV and radio legend Blair Schwartz has died aged 76. Blair Schwartz died of kidney failure in a Gold Coast hospital last Tuesday. Every state has their own living treasure and Blair was very much loved by all he touched.

Sydney sporting radio has been rocked for the second time this week. 2KY's Greg Munsie has lost his father in tragic circumstances. Norm Munsie, a former top jockey was found floating 1KM off Long Bay. Earlier this week 2GB's Peter Chippy' Frilingos suffered a heart attack and passed away whilst at work at The Daily Telegraph..

3AW morning man Neil Mitchell has come out to knock rumours that he is set to become editor of The Age on the head. Speaking on his program this morning Mitchell said he was still enjoying what he did at 3AW and when he stopped enjoying it he would move on.

ABC radio listeners will now be able to hear all five of the broadcaster's networks in Melbourne's Domain and Burnley Tunnels.The ABC has struck a long-awaited agreement with CityLink to broadcast in the tunnels, where reception was being lost.The ABC charter prevented the public broadcaster from entering into the same agreement as other commercial stations. CityLink's Brendan Bourke says a one-off payment has been arranged."There will be a payment from the ABC to pay for the equipment that's required to rebroadcast the signal and that will provide the service for the next 10 years," he said.

3MP has yet to bed down its new on air line up. Sources have suggested longtime announcer and current evening presenter Steve Curtis will be a floater. Former PD Pete Tarnawski will move into an announcing role (evenings) and new PD Paul James is rumoured to be taking over afternoons.

Someone has left the door unlocked at 3BA in Ballarat. First Popstar (David McClung) from the Power FM Hot 20 departs a few months ago to the DMG Northern Hub, then Viv Hatzi (Power FM Late Nights) disappears up there too. Now Bec Kington (Power FM Music Director) and Ray Kington (3BA Afternoons) have also resigned to move to a yet unknown location.

SEN 1116 may be the official Melbourne station of the upcoming Athens Olympic games but 3AW will be broadcasting their breakfast live from Athens during the games. It is said the breakfast boys Ross Stevenson and John Burns will be pulling out all the stops to attempt to steal SEN's thunder of the coverage.

3AW's Rex Hunt has vowed not to pay a fine for the theft of Qantas property from Adelaide's Qantas Club last Saturday. Rex smuggled a number of forks onto the Melbourne bound flight to prove a point after experiencing difficulty when he was checking in through airport security.

It seems as if RG Capital have slowly started to network the drive shift with the Benchwarmers from the Gold Coast, the latest stations to lose drive announcers being Sea FM Mackay and Sun FM Shepparton.

3MP this week welcomes Paul James (new pd ) and Pete Tarnawski to the on air team. Steve Curtis has now moved to weekend afternoons and Colin Boucher has replaced Michele Adler and John Patrick on the Saturday gardening program. Paul and Pete made their debut yesterday

18/05/04 - Austereo Adelaide has let a little more of the Eastern States programming penetrate the South Australian market. First it was Kyle and Jackie O who have recently joined SA FM, now as of next Monday Mick Molloy will deliver his 'Tough Love' program to 5MMM. We are lead to believe 'Tough Love will be packaged into an hour format between 1.00pm and 2.00pm for 5MMM.Speaking of Kyle and Jackie O, they will be broadcasting live from Adelaide's Rundle Mall this Friday , networking the show back across to the Eastern states.

Test transmissions are a strange thing and in the case of Merrick and Rosso and their Adelaide experiment, lets leave it at that. The divides are to large for the comedy duo to ever be networked into Adelaide once the new NOVA is launched later this year. This is despite their current test transmission having an impact on 'other FM ' ratings category.

We have all heard people overseas attempting an Aussie accent on TV and Radio and most of the time it either sounds rather 'cockney' or at worst a very poor South African. A Canadian station is doing its bit to stamp out bad Aussie accents and last week emailed EDGE FM Wangaratta asking for the genuine article. PD Glenn Looker obliged and sent them back a 'live' Aussie read, eliminating the cringe factor of another shocker attempt at our accent.

Top marks to GOLD 1043 today for playing 'The Concert for George'. The tribute concert recorded one year after George Harrison's death was a highlight and packaged across the day. We believe it was also played across 5DN, WS FM and 4KQ.

South Australia's TV and radio legend Blair Schwartz has died aged 76. Blair Schwartz died of kidney failure in a Gold Coast hospital last Tuesday. Every state has their own living treasure and Blair was very much loved by all he touched.

Sydney sporting radio has been rocked for the second time this week. 2KY's Greg Munsie has lost his father in tragic circumstances. Norm Munsie, a former top jockey was found floating 1KM off Long Bay. Earlier this week 2GB's Peter Chippy' Frilingos suffered a heart attack and passed away whilst at work at The Daily Telegraph..

3AW morning man Neil Mitchell has come out to knock rumours that he is set to become editor of The Age on the head. Speaking on his program this morning Mitchell said he was still enjoying what he did at 3AW and when he stopped enjoying it he would move on.

ABC radio listeners will now be able to hear all five of the broadcaster's networks in Melbourne's Domain and Burnley Tunnels.The ABC has struck a long-awaited agreement with CityLink to broadcast in the tunnels, where reception was being lost.The ABC charter prevented the public broadcaster from entering into the same agreement as other commercial stations. CityLink's Brendan Bourke says a one-off payment has been arranged."There will be a payment from the ABC to pay for the equipment that's required to rebroadcast the signal and that will provide the service for the next 10 years," he said.

3MP has yet to bed down its new on air line up. Sources have suggested longtime announcer and current evening presenter Steve Curtis will be a floater. Former PD Pete Tarnawski will move into an announcing role (evenings) and new PD Paul James is rumoured to be taking over afternoons.